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THE INNER VOICE
A Source of Light for Unfolding Consciousness
June 2013 • Pass it on! • www.theinnervoicemagazine.com
How the Healing Power in Nature
Can Produce Instant, Surprising Miracles
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June 2013
THE
INNER
VOICE
ISSN #1073-1814
The Inner Voice: A Source of Light
for Unfolding Consciousness is published by Nancy Freier; Website by Steve
Freier. It is our sincere intention that this
collective work of visionary writers, artists and contributors illumine the myriad
healing and self-exploration possibilities
that await your action. May we all be open
and willing to apply the wisdom to heal
ourselves of whatever limitation we may
be experiencing, and choose the higher
path in all situations. May the result of
your journey with The Inner Voice leave
you with a life that is content and filled
with love, joy and purpose.
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no responsibility for readers’ actions. We
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Table of Contents
Inspirations for Healing
Body, Mind, Spirit – and House!
2 Ad, 9th Street Wellness Center June Events
4 Angel Talk by Nancy Freier
6 The Unifying Force of Nature by Steve Freier
7 About the Cover
8 Luminous Infusions By Beverly Brunelle
8 Ad, Beverly Brunelle, Channel & Teacher
9 Ask A Good Question By Bettina Madini
10 Wise Woman Counsel By Kathleen Jacoby
11 Straight Talk from Dr. Roy Ostenson
12 The Power of Love to Heal by Meredith Young-Sowers
13 Feng Shui Outdoors: Pools & Fountains
14 How to Get Instant Healing by Dr. Susan Shumsky
15 From the Heart By Lynne Austin
16 AHZ-University Report By Richard Bennett
17 Evidence of Angels
18 Lemon Essential Oil - Ad, Ascending Light, Free Holistic Clinic
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Nature’s Gift:
Essential Oils and Flower Essences
Q. Sreper, please tell us about the inherent healing power in Nature, and how
essential oils and flower essences help us
to heal?
A. Yes, we are pleased to answer this.
In the beginning humans were created
whole, perfect and complete. You knew
who you were and aware of how to use
your mind-power to create. Some of your
spiritual historians would describe this as
the period of Lemuria, or as some choose
to call it, the Garden of Eden.
Some of you might reach within your
cellular memories and recall the time
known as ‘the fall from Grace’ and how
humans collectively co-created Earth, or
the third dimensional physical plane. In
your fall, you "fell asleep" to your Oneness with the Creator, and awoke to duality and separation; to a world of Light and
Dark, to a world of cause and effect, of
good and evil. The angels inhabiting the
higher worlds realized the fall took place,
and although they/we chose not to be a
part of this state of duality, the angels became gatekeepers and vowed to hold the
gate open for your return, whenever you
chose to go home.
Meanwhile, the angels working in cooperation with Nature, placed in Nature
the answers and the remedies you would
need to address your aches and pains. The
angels vowed to keep these answers safe
for you for whenever you would turn to
them and ask.
In the period known as Lemuria, all
gardening, horticulture and botanical techniques were performed on the mental levels. As Lemurians, you had not yet forgotten your connection and co-creative power
with Source. As the fall manifested, all
physical matter lowered in vibration. Everything slowed down ... your physical bod-
ies became denser, and as your thoughtforms became more solid, the more you
forgot the fluidity and the power that your
creative thoughts carried. The angelic
realms anticipated this and made it their
duty as your guardians, to safeguard the
antidotes and promised to deliver them
when you came looking for them.
The Nature Spirits, as a division of the
angelic realms, placed these antidotes in
the trees and flowers and communicated
through intuition, the information we
needed. As time passed, you had mostly
lost your ability to listen. The angelic
realm, realizing you had fallen further into
‘forgetfulness’, manifested in form as Beings of Light (devas, elves, sprites, et al.)
who would tend the Garden while you
were away.
“Be reminded,” said Sreper, “that although you left the Garden and have forgotten, we remember this information for
you. We have kept watch over this post,
and await your return.”
Q. How does healing with the flower
essences work?
A. We say the purpose of using flower
essences can be explained on many levels,
but to simplify, we ask you to think of the
essences as liquid consciousness, or as
spiritual medicine. Flower essences inspire
your freewill choice to help further the
unfoldment of higher consciousness by
bringing more light to the body.
Each plant holds a certain life-force
pattern of consciousness in the flower
from which the essences are derived.
When a person is feeling any emotional
imbalance, a flower essence, or a combination of essences, holding within them a
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lows the imbalance to just disappear.
Flower essences adjust the flow of consciousness by influencing the subtle, etheric (nonphysical) bodies, which then affect the physical body. They are a vibrational remedy restoring balance wherever
things are out of balance.
The angels continued, “There is an answer in nature for every imbalance man has
created. New ones are continually being
developed because man continually creates. Nature instilled in plants a life-force
that addresses any issue, on any level of
mind, body, or spirit. As you awaken to
your role in your own creative process, you
can use the flower essences to restore
health. Flower essences are a tool for enlightenment and offer a profound, complete
healing because they work on the subtle
levels where disease originates.”
“Essential oils have been used
throughout recorded history for a wide
variety of wellness applications. The
Egyptians were some of the first people
to use aromatic essential oils extensively in medical practice, beauty
treatment, food preparation, and in
religious ceremony. “ –Unknown
Q. How do essential oils work?
A. We say that essential oils have within
them the answers to the pains and illnesses
that you experience on the physical level.
The guardian angels, in cooperation with
the Nature Spirits, have placed the elixirs
in the plants. They have always been available to you and once were widely used.
You are now awakening to these oils, and
to the wisdom of how to extract, apply,
ingest or breathe them to find relief to your
physical aches, pains, and patterns of disease.
Again, we say that we have never left
our posts, as it were, and continually make
available to you, the antidotes for your
miscreations. While you are away from
your true home, you are not without help.
The essential oils and the flower essences
found in Nature are your friends and healing allies – infused with patterns of Light,
Intelligence and the highest vibrations to
ease your body aches and emotional patterns, just as when you eat of the plant
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By Steve Freier
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The Unifying Force of Nature
I was born into a strict Lutheran conservative sect. Martin Luther was a rebel and so
I guess it was appropriate that I would
become one, too. At about the age of 15
while I was taking Catechism Classes I
was told by the minister that we, as Evangelical Lutherans, needed to support the
outreach to those “poor” African and
South American native tribes that had
never heard of Jesus Christ so that they
might be saved. I cried that day. I cried
because I felt that if that concept was true,
then I had to feel sorry for all those poor
souls we Lutherans might have missed –
not only in my lifetime, but especially
spanning all the centuries that had already
passed. I asked myself, “How could we
possibly accomplish such a goal, now or
ever?”
Then logic told me that this idea had to
be false. How could a loving God possibly
condemn to hell all the millions of souls in
this world simply because they had not
had the opportunity to hear the ‘Good
News’ about Jesus, the Savior? How could
we Lutherans – as well as other Christian
sects – place our beliefs above those of
these native peoples who had lived for
centuries in isolation of the so-called civilized world? This idea also seemed to be a
throwback to earlier times when brown
skinned peoples were considered inferior
and needed to be uplifted. This smacked of
unadulterated
racism,
although I was
not that clear
about it back
then.
After
pondering
these
questions for
some time, I
divorced myMartin Luther
self from the
Lutheran cult and went on my own merry
way. I did what many young men did in
the late 1960s; I went to San Francisco
and hung out with the hippies. I grew my
hair long – sort of like Jimmy Hendrix; I
dropped acid, smoked dope and generally
tried to have a good time. I questioned the
beliefs of my parents, I protested the Vietnam War because I knew that war was
wrong. I beat the draft, and I paid the price
in lost job opportunities.
For about five years I had no religious
beliefs. Then one day while living in Chicago I was invited to a Unity Church.
Unity was a turning point for me because
they believed in a more open, liberal
metaphysical system. I really liked the
Unity minister there, as he would typically
dress informally, wore sneakers, and hired
many of the local Jazz musicians from
Chicago’s nightclub district to play the
music on Sundays – always able to come
up with show tunes that had a spiritual
message or twist. For many years this was
my school.
Unity had a fabulous metaphysical
bookstore and I bought many books there,
including those of the Science of Mind
movement founded by Ernest Holmes.
Sometime later I joined Science of Mind
where I began taking classes in earnest
with the idea of eventually becoming a
licensed minister in the movement. I took
classes for about 4 – 5 years until one day
I got into a philosophical argument with
the minister over whether, or not, plants
had a consciousness. It was her belief that
plants did not have a consciousness; only
humans could, and, this was representative
of the old-fashioned, hierarchical view
that man was situated at the top of the
hierarchy and everything else was his to
dominate. Since I had been reading books
by Michael Roads, an Australian who
wrote books about his dialogues with Nature, such as Talking with Nature, and
Journey into Nature, I was convinced that
we must pay attention to Nature because
in a way it is a part of our larger self.
“Rivers and rocks and trees have always
been talking to us, but we've forgotten
how to listen.” –Michael Roads
Since I had been reading books by Michael Roads, an Australian who wrote
about his dialogues with Nature, (“Talking
with Nature” and “Journey into Nature”), I
was convinced that we must pay attention
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to Nature because, in a way, it is a part of our
larger self.
“Rivers and rocks and trees have always
been talking to us, but we've forgotten how to
listen,” wrote Michael Roads.
Why is it that we have so many wars, poverty and general disharmony? Since man had
made such a mess of life on Planet Earth, I
decided that I just could not agree that we
were so much smarter than all the rest of life.
The trouble with Man, I decided, was that he
selves, guiding us toward our true identity,
the divine reality within. The story of the garden is the celebration of this divine life in its
myriad forms. May the joy we experience in
participating in this celebration deepen our
commitment to revealing the total beauty of
ourselves and all life around us.”
In my search for meaning I have found
organized religion lacking and even misleading. Their purpose seemed to be to support
the Military Industrial Agricultural Complex
and to keep people trapped and
powerless. I also found limitations in the more modern metaphysical religions such as Unity
and Science of Mind. After reading Michael Roads, Findhorn,
and other books that talked
about the existence of Nature
Spirits and the cooperative effort
that Nature sought with humans,
I realized that we were polluting
the Earth in the name of our
false sense of dominion we
thought we had over the Earth
Cabbages and the Original Caravan at Findhorn
which was supposedly given to
us
by the Christian Sky God that
held himself in a type of ego centered separaseemed
to
be
unconcerned
with its own creation. This, I concluded, was the root-cause of
tion
except
for
humans.
all of our problems and perhaps even the reaI saw the hypocrisy of this and the
son we are here in Earth bodies! Lucky for us,
destruction...not
only of Earth, but of ourthere is help available from the Other Side.
selves
in
the
process
because I learned that
Back in the early 1970s a small booklet
we
are
all
interconnected.
The Earth, humans,
was published describing the incredible happenings going on at a small trailer park in nature ... we are all interdependent on the
Findhorn, Scotland. There was a small group ONE system we live within. We must learn to
of people there who had formed an inten- work WITH nature and nurture our Earth and
tional community and somehow were able to ourselves – overcoming the need to dominate
grow very large organic vegetables on bad one another, or the planet, or any of the spesandy soil. Word got out that they were cies! We need to respect and care for – be
somehow linked up with Devas, Nature Spir- caregivers instead of exploiters.
People like Michael Roads and the Findits, Elves, Fairies and the like, and that this
horn Community invite us to a more ancient
was the secret of their abundant success.
Here’s a brief quote from the front of their time when man was young and shared his
book, The Findhorn Garden.. “One radiant world knowingly with these beings. This
energy pervades and gives rise to all life. priceless gift of wonderment invites us to
While it may speak to us through plants, na- become as little children, dancing in an elven
ture spirits or the human beings with whom ring … and walking near the majesty of the
we share life on this planet, all are reflections great god Pan. We are offered the renewal of
of the deeper reality behind and within them. links only recently forgotten in the rush to
Myth has become reality in the Findhorn gar- industrialize the Earth. Yet, at the same time,
den, not to present us with a new form of Findhorn proclaims the image for humanity
spiritualism, but to offer us a new vision of of a new maturity, the birth of the consciouslife, a vision of unity. Essentially, the devas ness of participatory divinity, of CO-creation
and nature spirits are aspects of our own with God.
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About the Cover:
Flower Fairy is a reminder of
the Beauty and Healing Energy
of Nature. The message is: “If
you open your vision in your
Heart and learn to ‘live from
your Heart’ you can really see!”
If you turn the painting around
you see a flower; the other way
you see a fairy. The message is:
“Sometimes, we need to turn
‘upside down’ to really see.”
This can reveal to us a new
world. Nothing is really what we
think it is!
Flower Fairy is a fine art, limited edition giclee print of the
original painting. Image size:
12” x 9.5”; print size: 14” x
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in acrylic on canvas. Each print
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Luminous Infusions
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Living In Evolution
I believe we are each in a continuous
process of evolution and living in the unknown is a key factor facilitating our going transformation. Life is movement filled with fresh possibilities. Yet, we each tend to perceive
relations through filters of recycling past
emotional experiences, beliefs, and accumulated conditioning. Filters can direct us
to righteously draw conclusions, creatively
build resistance, and adamantly expect
repeated behaviors that are unconsciously
based on accumulated conditioning of our
past. Filters can foster a false sense of
authority, control, safety that come from
limiting expectations. Bringing conscious awareness to all this
can move us from the mental-emotional
habits of limiting the future into the
mental-emotional-spiritual spaciousness of
living in active creative possibility, i.e.
evolution.
What transformation is presenting itself
for you today? Moving awareness within,
notice what habitual ways you tend to perceive yourself and others. Now, relax the
mind’s hold on what you expect to be true,
explore new possibilities, and give space
for you, people and life to evolve and even
to surprise you. I was in a hardware store looking for the
smallest of items. I saw an assistant focused on the phone with another customer.
I thought, “ When he is done, I can ask for
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help.” I continued to look for my desired
item. Soon, I came across the assistant
again. He was standing in front of a large
display chart, finding what the customer
on the phone wanted. When I looked at
the chart, I saw a photo of exactly the
right tiny item I was looking for. I
laughed with life. The assistant had
guided me to exactly what I wanted and
not at all in ways I had expected.
Expecting the unexpected can create a
shift out of the loop of habitual ways of
being. Our bodies and energy fields carry
information and expectations from ancestral, societal, religious conditioning, and
other unconscious influences that influence us. Awareness of these patterns creates an opportunity for evolution.
I was visiting a friend. We seemed to be
flowing in delightful conversation. After
an hour, I noticed I began to feel uncomfortable during a long pause. I noticed a
familiar thought pattern of assuming it
must be time for me to leave. Before I
spoke, I moved my attention to my
breathing. This created some mental and
emotional space to be in the unknown. I
stayed with my breathing and in a few
minutes a new flow opened up and we
talked for another interesting hour. Then, I
noticed a long pause and jumped to the
same must go conclusion. Again, I turned
my attention to my breathing. From the
silence of the unknown a new opportunity
arose for me to do an energy healing with
my friend. After our delicious meditation
we both agreed our evening felt enriching
and complete.
Living in evolution is doing what you
do not usually do. It involves conscious
intentions of relaxing expectations, listening to the moment and opening to the
unknown. It is being curious, perceiving
with refined awareness and receiving new
possibilities for the movement of life, in
yourself and others. Living in evolution
invites you to be willing to see with fresh
eyes, even if you have seen this person or
situation thousands of times before.
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In Memory of
Nancy Retzlaff • Milwaukee, WI
One of the original Reiki Masters, Nancy
took this healing art back to Japan, teaching it there, as well as in the Milwaukee
area and all over the world. She was a Spiritual Mentor to many and a past contributor
to “The Inner Voice.” I think that her peaceful passing is, perhaps, her final lesson for
us. May God bless you. Rest in Peace.
A Question That Can Change Everything
By Bettina Star-Rose Madini
WE have been guardians of bees for
two summers now, and we are learning
tremendously from these busy, powerful
creatures! I am amazed how much my
universe has opened ever since I have
been so closely involved with their energy,
vibrancy, abundance and life-force.
This past winter has been a challenge
for them here in the Midwest. A long, hard
winter with much freezing moisture. We
sent a strong, healthy, vibrant hive into
winter, loaded with honey and pollen only
to discover in April that we had had a
mass die-off in early spring. Only a few
bees had survived the disaster. I checked
the hive several times and just couldn’t
find a Queen, or brood, or larvae. The few
workers went out and collected pollen and
honey on warm days, but who would follow that generation once they reached the
end of their 40-day life cycle? With no
Queen around, a hive will dwindle and die
out.
On my last hive check on May 6, I had
asked for a miracle. What would it take for
a Queen bee to just be here? What else is
possible here? I checked on them again a
week later, just following the energy of
“Oh, let's see what they are doing!” They
were gathering pollen and honey and doing a good bee job! Then, as I went further
through the small hive, I found brood and
larvae! Wow, I thought, that's a sign of a
Queen! As I turned the comb to see the
other side of it, I spotted her. She was vibrant and strong! How does it get any better than that?
What if, instead of giving up, we keep
asking: “What else is possible?” This is a
question that has the power to change everything. Are you willing to ask it?
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Bettina Star-Rose Madini is an
artist and an Access Consciousness™ BARS Facilitator. Her paintings
can be found in corporate and private
collections in Europe, Australia and in
the U.S. She offers painting retreats
that combine guided journeys with the
process of painting from within.
Sunflower with Bee by Bettina Star-Rose.
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Wise Woman Counsel By Kathleen Jacoby
Author of Vision of the Grail: http://visionofthegrail.wordpress.com/
Seasons of the Soul http://kathleenjacoby.blogs.com/seasonsofthesoul/
Journey to Raw: http://2raw.wordpress.com
Heal the Earth, Heal Ourselves
I watched a documentary the other
day about the reclamation of deserts. Years
ago a photographer was sent to China to
document a major program of re-greening
a huge land mass that had become a desert
due to overuse, clearing, and inappropriate
grazing. Over a period of three years, he
documented the evolution of the program,
showing how after three years, the whole
area that had been completely dead was
now a thriving ecosystem. In the intervening years he has gone to other parts of the
world where they are reproducing the
same effort with similar effect. The message states clearly, we can reclaim the
deserts through working WITH nature
rather than against her. www.youtube
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This documentary made such an impact that it caused me to think about how
much we have put ourselves in an adversarial position with nature. We use pesticides, fertilizers, over-farm, clear forests
to make way for crops, and a host of other
unconscious methods that harm the earth
rather than help it, and in so doing, we are
also using the same unconscious methods
with ourselves. We eat things that masquerade as food but are a conglomerate of
chemicals and inferior food stuff that is
filled with additives to appeal to our taste
buds and create addiction. We also use
drugs to combat every conceivable health
issue with an eye to health care management, not healing. As a result, we have
super bacteria that has morphed to adapt to
the new chemical environment, and the
more war we declare against it, the more
we are playing a game of Russian Roulette.
This is the same thing we have done
with our soil. We have depleted it by using
non-organic chemicals, we use pesticides
to rid ourselves of bugs we don't understand, and weeds we perceive as being
destructive to growing. The truth is that
the bugs we deplore are scavengers of the
weakened plants so that the strength of our
vegetation is preserved through culling out
the weakest genetic expressions. Same
with weeds. They add nutrients to the soil
and in some cases uptake nutrients that are
overabundant to bring balance and stability, to keep the soil healthy and vitally
alive.
The extreme conditions facing earth
are also facing us, and we need to find
ways to counteract what has happened
through unconscious acts of greed and a
desire for convenience. The first thing we
need to do is reclaim ourselves, and to
nurture the earth, we must first be willing
to nurture this person, and this body that
we are.
So many scripts have been handed out
that keep us in small containers that choke
off our God given gifts and abilities. So
many ridiculous criteria for what is "in"
and what and who is "out" keep us from
seeing the beauty in diversity. We have
been set against one another rather than
appreciating our uniqueness. Each of us
needs to turn within to find the indwelling
truth that is beyond all the commercials,
exploitation, and addictive elements that
snare us in the illusion of isolation and
divisiveness.
There are wonderful ways of finding
our true selves. The task ahead is to open
the door to that part of ourselves that is
glorious, wondrous, and full of enthusiasm. We each make a difference, and by
attuning to the inner light, we can find our
own special assignment. Methods for doing this include: Prayer, meditation, sacred
music, gardening, walking in nature, turning off the news, releasing "bad" habits,
eating consciously, discernment in friendships, being compassionate towards others
and ourselves, feeling gratitude for what
we DO have in our lives rather than dwelling on what we don't have, appreciating
what our body does for us, developing a
storehouse of love within that shines first
to ourselves and then spills over for everyone else, being kind, generous, living a
life of integrity even in small things, forgiving others for their imperfections, and
forgiving ourselves for ours. When we
establish a rapport with ourselves, we develop a healthy attitude towards everyone
and everything else. We no longer are ‘less
than’ or ‘more than.’ We are each beautiful
expressions of the Creator. When we
honor, rather than desecrate, we are filled
with light. We become angels of our better
nature and we contribute to a planet that is
worth living on. It is all in our attitude, in
our actions, and in the mindset that we
fuel.
An old Native American story talks
about a grandfather and his grandson. The
elder is teaching the young one of the
ways of life. He explains to him that the
mind is like a field in which two wolves
are in constant battle for dominion. One is
helpful and seeking our good, and the
other is angry and wants to destroy us. The
grandson, with wide eyes asks his grandfather, "But Grandfather, which wolf wins?"
The grandfather pauses, looks at him
deeply, and says, "The one you feed."
As the grandfather reminds us, our
minds are a breeding ground for good and
ill...all depending on what we pay attention to, so as his message conveys, let us
be conscious of what we feed because our
future individually and collectively depends on it!
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Straight Talk From Dr. Roy Ostenson
Short, sweet, and to the point ideas for getting and staying healthy
Dr. Roy Ostenson, B.S., D.C., C.C.S.T.
Dr. Roy helps NE Wisconsin residents reach optimal wellness through Chiropractic and Clinical
Nutrition. The pursuit for optimal wellness is an active process of making choices toward a more
healthy existence. He strives for objectivity in nutritional healthcare and provides clear chiropractic options in structural healthcare to help clients reach their fullest potential in life. Dr. Roy
hopes you will choose a chiropractor who is prepared to graciously serve and help you achieve
your health goals.
Dr. Roy Ostenson | Appleton Chiropractic | 920-731-0715 | www.fixmedoc.com
Chiropractic
Adjustments
and Great
Health
THE major tools of a chiropractor are
the adjustment, self-care recommendations, spinal rehabilitation, neurological
retraining, Science Based Nutritional Testing, and other lifestyle changes or coaching programs.
Over the decades, doctors of chiropractic have reported success in treating many
people who have a variety of “conditions.”
Adjustments of the vertebrae have an influence on neurologic function, lymphatic
flow, blood flow and muscle problems like
“fibromyalgia.” Research by Patricia C.
Brennan, Ph.D., suggests that adjustments
may also affect aspects of immune function. Her group showed that when the thoracic spine was adjusted, the respiratory
burst cycle of white blood cells was enhanced. Adjusting is thought to stimulate
immune function, in part by promoting the
release of endorphins long associated with
improving immunity.
In 1987, Gottfried Gutmann, M.D., reported on the examination and treatment
of more than 1,000 infants and small children using adjusting of the vertebrae. His
findings reveal that many common ear,
nose, throat and bronchial disorders of
childhood respond more favorably to adjustment of the vertebrae than to drug
therapy. He states, "If the indications are
correctly observed, chiropractic can often
bring amazingly successful results, because the therapy is a causal one."
German physician K. Lewit, in a textbook of manual medicine, reported that 92
percent of youthful patients with chronic
tonsillitis had blockage, or misalignment,
of the first cervical vertebra and the base
of the skull. According to Dr. Lewit, "After removal of the blockage [by adjustment of the vertebrae], recurrence is absent."
Pediatrician U. Mohr has reported on
cases of chronic tonsillitis in which tonsillectomy was planned. However, after
treatment of the functional disturbances of
the spine using adjustments, the problem
resolved and no tonsillectomy was needed.
Many chiropractic doctors also use
acupressure, Active Release procedures,
Science Based Nutrition and lifestyle
coaching. They are one of the largest
groups of health professionals in the U.S.
who use clinical nutrition in their practice.
Unlike medical education, chiropractic
education stresses nutrition and lifestyle
changes to improve overall health. It
teaches that disease results when the body
has lost its optimum health levels, and we
know drugs and surgery are designed to
treat diseases and trauma, not restore
glowing health.
Reports over the decades have shown
the rates of tonsillitis and otitis media was
much lower in the children of chiropractors compared with the children of pediatricians. This might be attributed in part to
the fact that spinal manipulation was a part
of the health care received by the chiropractic children.
At the Department of Maternal and
Child Health, Center for Clinical Studies
at Northwestern College of Chiropractic,
Carol J. Phillips, D.C., has reported on
numerous cases of ear infections in children that have responded to spinal adjustments. In many cases, these children had
received multiple doses of antibiotics followed by tubes, with little improvement.
Dr. Phillips also reports that many cases of
acute earaches respond quickly to adjusting.
Adjusting is not the cure for all infectious diseases, however, there is an aspect
of adjusting that appears to stimulate resistance to disease. Adjusting maximally
corrects irritations or blockages that occur
in the spine and nervous system. This
form of treatment is worthy of consideration, especially when there is a history of
birth trauma, or injury later in childhood.
The same holds true for adults, in whom
ear, nose, throat and sinus problems are
commonly seen after injuries.
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Our primary work at Appleton Chiropractic is to find the cause of why people
are suffering or getting conditions that are
negatively having an impact on their lives
and keeping them from living a healthy,
vibrant and happy life. If you, your friends
or other loved ones are suffering needlessly, they just might benefit from the
unique approach that we have created in
our office.
APPLETON CHIROPRACTIC
2425 West Wisconsin Avenue
Appleton, Wisconsin 54914
Phone: (920) 731-0715
Email: [email protected]
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The Power of Love
to Heal
By Dr. Meredith Young-Sowers,
Author and Founder of The Stillpoint
School of Integrative Life Healing
www.stillpoint.org
POWER is found through your awareness,
acknowledgement, and translation of your
creativity into the world arena.
My five-year-old daughter, Melanie, had a
fever of 105 and a deep, nasty cough. I called
the pediatrician, and his receptionist managed
to fit us in for an appointment later that morning. Since we wouldn’t be leaving for another
hour, I tried to think what I could do to calm
down and quiet my fears. With Melanie on the
bed near me, I decided to meditate for a few
moments.
Sitting on the seedy brown shag rug, I
looked around the bedroom of our rented cottage. The walls were gray, and plastic flowers
were on a table in the corner. Not my taste, I
thought, absently. We were moving to New
Hampshire, and we had to sell our home to
build a new one. The plan was to stay in the
cottage for a few months while we made the
transition to our new home.
My stomach churned as I thought about
taking Melanie to the doctor’s office again.
Once before, we had to rush her to the hospital
with a high fever. I remembered only too vividly the dash to the hospital, the screaming
child, terrified as they packed her in ice to
bring down the fever, and then the nightmare
of her veins collapsing. I recalled the terror of
feeling helpless as the medical team rushed to
keep her alive. With great relief and God’s
grace, we’d survived that ordeal, with all of us
intact.
I’d waited a long time to have a little girl of
my own. Melanie was the daughter I’d longed
to hold for so many years. After my son Mark
was born and following two miscarriages, I
was ready to consider adoption. I wasn’t concerned at all that this child wasn’t coming
from my body; I felt she was coming from my
heart. I knew I wanted a child from an Asian
country, a little girl who wasn’t going to have
much of a future if someone didn’t adopt her.
We would adopt each other, I thought wistfully. I’d help her settle into her life in Amer-
ica, and she’d help me feel complete as a mother. I realized that
children are only on loan to us, and
while I loved being a mother, I
also needed to find my life work. I
had no idea where my contribution lay.
My lovely little Soon Young Lee, five
months old, arrived on Thanksgiving Day at
O’Hare Airport in Chicago. She had thick
black hair that stood straight up, and beautiful
dark, round eyes. She looked like a doll. She’d
come all the way from Seoul, Korea. We’d
named her Melanie Soon Young, since my
own married name was Young.
Melanie coughed, and I returned quickly
from my reverie to the role of vigilant mother.
I closed my eyes, steeling my nerves for whatever was to come. I prayed. Did God really
hear my words? For a moment, I wondered if
God would or could act to relieve the misery
of one small child, with so many children in
the world in worse situations. It seemed unlikely. Nevertheless, I asked God to help her.
As I closed my eyes, I heard a soft and gentle
voice speak to me. I heard this voice so clearly
that I opened my eyes to see who was standing in the room. No one was there. I closed
my eyes again and the voice said, “You can
heal your daughter.”
My eyes snapped open again. I looked over
at Melanie, who was dozing fitfully. I looked
out the window, but all was just as it had been
before. I closed my eyes. The voice continued,
“Love will heal your daughter; just try.” I was
speechless. Preposterous, I said out loud! The
voice continued with infinite compassion. In
that moment I was starting to believe that the
experience was real. Was this God? I asked
myself. Who else could it be? Was it safe to
listen to this voice? The voice said, “Pick up
your daughter, hold her in your arms, and see
her filled with love.” I couldn’t imagine that I
wasn’t making this up. Still, I felt a glimmer
of hope that this was a miracle. “This isn’t any
miracle,” chimed my personality, “it’s your
wishful thinking.” But
something inside me said,
maybe I should try it. But, try what? I didn’t
know anything about healing.
The voice repeated the same instructions.
“Pick up your daughter and hold her. See her
filled with love.” I gently picked Melanie up
and sat down on the shag rug with her in my
arms. She hung in my arms listlessly. I
thought, I have no idea of the right way to do
this. “How do you see someone filled with
love?” I asked out loud. I could feel myself
fighting a panic that I might miss an extraordinary opportunity to help Melanie because I
didn’t know how to see her “filled with love.”
I decided to try the best I could. I began by
imagining love as a bright light, as if it were
God’s love filling her body. I started at her
head and let my eyes slowly move down her
body, imagining this special healing light
making her better.
The phone in the kitchen rang so loudly I
nearly jumped out of my skin. Placing her
quiet little body carefully on the carpet, I went
out to answer the call, thinking it might be the
doctor. Coming back into the bedroom several
moments later, I stopped abruptly in the doorway to see if my eyes were deceiving me.
There was Melanie bouncing on the bed. She
was smiling and laughing. “Come play with
me, Mommy,” rang out her little voice. She
wasn’t coughing, and when I put my hand on
her forehead, it was cool. Where did the fever
go? “This can’t be happening.” I said to no
one in particular. How was this possible? Did I
imagine the fever? Then, my eye caught my
hastily scribbled message to the pediatrician. I
hadn’t imagined that she was in trouble! How
could this have happened? It wasn’t possible,
but healing IS possible through the power of
God’s Love.
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Feng Shui: Pools and Fountains Offer Liquid Serenity
By Terah Kathryn Collins
foyer and a calming influence in
WATER, one of the five key
an infant’s room. Many people
elements in Feng Shui design, is
place a small table fountain on
related to inspiration, relaxation,
their desks to help alleviate stress,
and the ability “to go with the
or strategically locate an outdoor
flow” in life. Simply put, water is
fountain near a bedroom, home
an antidote to stress. Whether you
office, or dining room window to
enjoy relaxing beside a pool or
capture the melodious sound of
listening to the soothing sounds of
water. In all cases, choose founa fountain, the following Feng
tains that flow toward the house,
Shui design guidelines will help
into the room, or 360 degrees
you choose the perfect water feaaround to symbolize the good forture for your home.
tune flowing into your life.
Pools are the ‘King’ of water
All fountains require regular
features and tend to visually
cleaning and maintenance. Use
command the area where they’re Water Bowls: If you want a smaller waterfall feature for you swimming pool a water bowl distilled water in your interior
located. Because they draw so might do well. These are small decorative water features that act as waterfalls as well as fountains to greatly lengthen the
add an accent to the pool design.
much attention and take up a lion’s
time between cleanings, and be
share of space, pools must be beautiful, or and other pool decor in earth tones, yel- sure that nearby furniture and fabrics are
else! (As anyone knows who has seen a low, plaids or checks can also strengthen not being damaged by splashing water.
pool in disrepair.) When a pool is kept the earth element in the pool area.
Pools and fountains symbolize “the
sparkling clean and surrounded by inviting
For safety reasons, good lighting good life” and act as environmental jewfurniture, vibrant plants, and attractive around the pool is a necessity. The best elry. Just like the ring on your finger, they
lighting, it can transform a back yard into kind of lighting suggests a nocturnal fairy- say a lot about your sense of style.
a magical paradise. Consider adding a
land, not an over-bright sports arena. Con- Whether splashy, traditional, or all natural,
waterfall to your pool design and site it to sider how you can aesthetically illuminate the ideal water feature is one that captures
flow toward your house, symbolizing the every inch of the pool area so that it’s as your imagination and inspires you to relax
flow of good fortune into your home.
much a paradise at night as it is during the and enjoy the moment.
Feng Shui design observes that water, a day.
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pool in this case, is best balanced by colors
Fountains are universally appealing, as
Terah Kathryn Collins is the author of
and things associated with the earth ele- they provide a pleasing place to rest the six books on Feng Shui. She has revolument. Cement, slate, brick, or tile in earthy eye … and the ear. A wide variety of inte- tionized this ancient art to how we build
colors, and terra-cotta planters and flower- rior and exterior fountains are available in today in the West. She is the founder of the
pots bring a reassuring sense of stability every style and price range. Indoors, foun- Western School of Feng Shui®, San Diego.
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How to Get Instant
Healing
By Susan Shumsky, D.D.
IN a world of chaos and uncertainty, we
can no longer depend on solid, steadfast
institutions we previously counted on,
even for our very survival. There is an
increasing, sickening fear about the future,
which is taxing our mental and physical
health. As our lives and livelihood appear
to be sliding into an abyss, there seems no
way out of this madness.
Is there a way to reverse the downward
spiral of inner turmoil and frustration? Yes,
you can. By using simple affirmation
formulas, you can experience immediate
healing, comfort, and solace. Affirmative
Prayer is a non-denominational, universal,
time-tested method of spiritual healing,
proven by millions who have used it over
the last 150 years to change their lives
within minutes.
To instantly transform your state of
mind, or the surrounding mental
atmosphere, just read the formula audibly
and then let go and allow the magic to
happen. You can now discover how the
power of your spoken word, with
intention, produces miraculous, instant
results.
Every affirmation works. It either
produces an instant visible result, or else it
creates an instant healing that moves you
towards your desired goal. So keep
affirming, and never, never, never give up.
Here is an excerpt from my book
Miracle Prayer, which describes Carolyn
Hanson's extraordinary healing, in Fresno,
California:
"One day I was walking my dog Arthur,
an afghan, with my bike. Instead of putting
his lead on the bike, I put it on my left
wrist. As we turned the first corner, Arthur
made a beeline for a bush to pee on, and he
cut in front of my bike. Not wanting to
injure him, I slammed on my brakes and
flew off my bike to the left. I thought my
arm was broken. After several attempts to
get up, I finally managed to get my dog
home before going to the emergency
clinic.
"The doctor at the emergency clinic
x-rayed the arm and said it was severely
separated and would require surgery. He
further stated: 'You won't be able to lie
down to sleep for two weeks (I thought,
'cancel, cancel'). You will be in severe pain
for a year ('cancel, cancel'), and that step
on your shoulder will never go away
('cancel, cancel'). This is how I handle it, I
get up in the morning, have a pain pill, a
cigar, and a coke.' (Now I really thought,
cancel, cancel.) His last statement made
me realize this wasn't what I wanted to
create, so I separated my reality from his.
"My appointment with the orthopedic
surgeon was in three days. Driving home, I
reminded myself that the doctor told me
the 'facts,' but it wasn't the 'truth'. I went
into meditation and prayed for perfect
healing. I saw my shoulder perfect. I
repeated a prayer treatment morning and
night. That night I taped my arm to my
side and went to bed lying down. During
the day when the pain was severe, I calmly
said, 'Thank you God, that every cell in my
body knows its perfection and now
manifests that perfection.' The pain left.
"When the surgeon looked at my x-rays
three days later, he asked whether I had the
right x-rays, because they did not match
my shoulder. I thrust my seemingly
separated arm into the air saying 'YES.'
My doctor still calls it a miracle—I simply
call it the Truth. "We are constantly
creating our reality and have the power to
change the effects by simply realizing they
aren't the truth about us—just the facts."
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Learn 243 healing affirmations that
will transform your life instantaneously
in Dr. Shumsky's book: Instant Healing
She is the author of other awardwinning, best-selling books.
For more information please visit:
www.divinerevelation.org
Everyday
Miracles
By Rev. Linda Losey, RScP
ALBERT Einstein is quoted as saying,
“There are only two ways to live your
life. One as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a
miracle.”
How do you view your life? Your
world? Your existence? Do you believe
that miracles only happen for other people? That you must struggle to receive
what you want in life or settle for less
than you desire?
During the past 17 years as a licensed
Religious Science / Science of Mind practitioner, I have experienced many ‘miracles’ for clients, and for myself, that one
might consider amazing. Even during my
practitioner internship many years ago, it
was truly joyful to observe the changes in
peoples’ lives when they requested spiritual mind treatment for health conditions,
personal finances, job issues and unhappy
relationships. Over the years I have observed the powerful results of those
treatments while working with clients.
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Miracles from p. 14
Recently, I received a phone
call from a person who was
very concerned for a loved one
who had been transferred to the
Mayo Clinic and was in intensive care. The patient had a
long history of health problems
which were at a very critical
point. I treated for the person
who called me, and for the
patient, who within a short
time miraculously began to get
better to the point of being discharged shortly thereafter.
(Note: Shared with permission
from the client.)
With the awareness that with
God anything is possible, and
we understand that principle is
not bound by precedent – as
Thomas Troward declared –
when we recognize that at any
given time, any condition or
situation can change, we can
then begin to expect those everyday miracles to occur in our
lives.
Many years ago a friend
gave me a bumper sticker that
stated, “Let go and let God.” I
add, “...take care of all the details.” When we focus on trusting the infinite wisdom of the
universe to provide a solution
to a seeming problem, we have
the opportunity to connect with
greater possibilities for our
lives. Even when we tend to
hold on to limiting beliefs,
there is always a greater truth
of unlimited possibilities for
something better to manifest in
our lives. You may call it a
miracle, or simply know that
anything and everything is possible, but what is more important is that you are worthy of
greater good in your own life!
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Rev. Losey is the minister of the
Green Bay Church of Religious
Science.
From the Heart by Lynne Carol Austin
A Healing Surprise
Lynne Carol Austin works as a healer and teacher at the
Gayatri Center for Healing, Brookfield, WI. She is he
author of “Edith Ann Marie The Sun is in My Heart.”
Website: www.wisewindpress.com
Blog: www.lynnecarolaustin.wordpress.com
E-mail: [email protected]
MANY years ago, my client walked in the
door for her appointment, and when I saw her, I
knew the scheduled treatment was not going to
happen. At the time I was doing the Rolf method
of Structural Integration – a deep tissue work
that changes ones posture, which then affords
the body to live healthier. But it has always been
my practice to pay minute attention to my clients and read them as soon I as see them.
“What's going on?” I asked. “It feels like we
are not doing session six today.”
“Oh, thank you,” she replied. I had a doctor’s
visit. I have a lump in my breast which showed
up on the mammogram. He told me that he
thinks I have cancer. He wants to do a biopsy
next week.”
I instructed her lay on my table, fully dressed.
My bodywork education has many aspects to it.
She needed a gentle approach that day and I was
very capable of giving it to her. I use my intuition and ask for guidance for the aspect of care I
was to perform, and I began.
Our body is the register for our beliefs, our
emotions and our life experience. I wanted to
see what brought her physically to this point in
her life. Sitting behind her, I laid my hands on
her head, awaiting the information I would get
from a higher power that I allow to speak
through me. I understood that self love was not
part of her repertoire. As I stayed with her head,
my torso suddenly and quite forcefully flew
backwards on my stool. I was momentarily
shocked, and then realized an angelic being that
I never worked with before was present in a big
way! I was instructed to place my hand on the
effected breast, and healing energy would pulse
through to her. I explained to her what I was
about to do, and carefully placed my hands. She
stated she could feel the energy. While I stayed
in that position, I asked her what kept her from
loving herself, and she shared many things. She
felt relief after the session, and said she would
incorporate the suggestions we spoke about.
I received an excited phone call from her after
her doctor appointment. She told me they did
another mammogram before the biopsy and
couldn't find the mass. They performed two
more mammograms and still couldn't find the
mass. She attributed it to the work we did. I
gave her credit for the ideals she integrated and
the actions of self love she brought into her life.
I was the vehicle of the energy, that is all I
would take credit for.
When I studied shamanism in the 90's, I was
initiated into the Andean practice, and became a
fourth level paco. Those of us initiated into the
fourth level have abilities with healing, but we
are not consistent with healing every time we
try. That would be a fifth level person; one who
could consistently heal, and we would compare
those abilities with Christ. As far as I know,
there are no fifth level pacos.
The healing was not only powerful for my
client, but for me as well. I have experience using energy, as I am a Reiki Master, but this energy was different. When I left my office after
her appointment I was dazed. On the way home
I stopped at a store, left my car keys on the floor
of the store, and couldn't find them when I went
out to my car. I went back in the store and found
my keys right where I was getting something off
the bottom shelf. I laughed at myself and took
great care driving home! This energy has visited
me two other times in my career, each time,
knocking my socks off.
Offering myself to allow healing to flow
through me, using my hands, my heart and my
words, is something I am honored to do. It is the
life I asked for this go around. It is a privilege to
serve in this way, and I see more healing happen
on my table then I ever did as a nurse in a hospital. That statement is not from ego, it is just
plain fact. There is more beyond our understanding and way we approach how we care for our
bodies, and I love finding those pathways.
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Ahz University Report No. 5
Dilemma or Devotion?
By Richard Jerome Bennett
AS I survey the regions of my mind and body today, I find
more pockets of resistance and more reasons for inquiry. I have
been on a ten plus year journey to achieve the goal of complete
wellness, physically, spiritually and mentally.
I take reality checks from time to time to keep myself 'real' and
grounded. It is so easy to take all this spiritual language and
watch it morph into some shiny clap-trap of formulas, secret
mantras, and choices of oscillating orbits of worlds colliding for
the benefit of ascension.
So what does it all mean? Yeah, what does it all mean?
Hummm... I'm not hearing anything. I guess we don't really
know. Hummm… I'm waiting, and while I wait, I realize I don't
really know. I feel like I'm fumbling around in the unknown, the
radiant darkness, and that I'm floating down the rabbit hole toward an uncertain future, desiring to land in some kind of magical wonderland. And I push ‘pause’ to assess my situation.
Spiritually, I couldn't be happier. I am light and witty and I
assist in freeing people from their self-induced chains of limiting
belief systems, and unproductive impressions. I can raise and
expand energy at will and I experience joy almost all the time.
Impossible you say, but that, is my experience. My mind is free
and soars through data flow, from all possible worlds, unfettered
and unimpressed by the glory of storyline and or scientific acumen. And as for my body, I was guided on how to raise it up from
the dead, to a full functioning vibrating organism.
Now here is the rub. I feel great, my body is full of energy, my
stamina is wonderful and there are no apparent crises that I can
detect. However, my tests from my latest medical review say that
my blood pressure is too high, my liver is over working and my
immune system doesn't look good.
My question to myself is, if I am doing all my spiritual work
and being of service as best I know how, I am living a good life,
eating well and living consciously, and I feel great, why don't the
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numbers on my chart reflect how I feel and am experiencing life?
I am trying to figure out what I may, or may not, be doing.
Is this a dilemma? The dictionary says that a dilemma is the
choice between equally undesirable alternatives. That definition
seems a bit dark, since I had thought that it was a choice between
two equally compelling possibilities – positive or negative. I am
digesting this.
Now, I wander to another part of the spectrum. Am I devoted
enough? Do I approach everything on my plate with zeal and
ardor? The definition of devotion is, to apply oneself completely,
to have a strong attachment and affection, as to a person or cause.
Well, I believe I am passionate, I am devoted to the Light and
engender compassion. So what gives? I sigh and realize, there
may be no answer to my situation. Why? Well, everything is
working in good order, negative and positive. I have nothing to
moan about.
Today I arise to a crystal clear San Francisco dawn. The birds
chirp and dip into the sunflower seeds that I put out for them. The
sun glows with its magnificence and assists in displaying Nature's
glory in all Her tints and hues.
I take a deep breath of air allowing the prana to merge into my
physical and spiritual being. I fill up with gratitude, knowing that
a beloved will be in my arms in a few days. I am ecstatic because
I know that I am loved and that I can really feel it deeply, as tears
of joy well up in my eyes. Maybe that is enough. Perhaps I don't
need to know more at this moment.
Is it possible I am attached to a certain outcome, a particular
story line? Maybe.
So thank you for this moment. Thank you for allowing me this
indulgence of words as I await more wisdom. Meanwhile, let us
continue to celebrate this mystical and miraculous journey of life
together. Om tat sat. ∆
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How past life visits
can heal us
Evidence of Angels
By Brian L. Weiss, M.D. a psychiatrist who lives and practices in
Miami., Florida. A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, he is the former Chairman of Psychiatry at the Mt.
Sinai Medical Center in Miami. http://www.brianweiss.com
ON a beautiful summer afternoon in New
York in July 2010, my wife, Carole, and I
were driving up the tree-lined Taconic Parkway toward the Omega Institute, a rustic retreat center where we teach an intensive
course on past-life regressions. We love
teaching this course. Incredible events happen
every day, repeatedly. Participants not only
remember past lives but have amazing spiritual or healing experiences, find soul mates,
receive messages from departed loved ones,
access profound wisdom and knowledge, or
come across some other mystical and marvelous event. Often we do not know that a
particularly powerful experience has just
transpired in the workshop. The person may
need time to process it, and we will only hear
of it in a later e-mail or letter.
A miracle happened for me on the day that
a patient named Catherine walked into my
office and introduced me to an entire spiritual
universe that I had never believed to exist.
My earlier books contain a very detailed account of her experiences, and they describe
how her life was permanently altered for the
better as a result of them. My own life was
affected at least as much. Before uncovering
her amazing past-life memories, I had been a
left-brained, obsessive-compulsive academic.
I had graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta
Kappa, with a degree in chemistry from Columbia University. I earned my medical degree from the Yale University School of
Medicine, where I was the chief resident in
psychiatry. Completely skeptical of “unscientific” fields such as parapsychology and reincarnation, I was the chair person of a prestigious psychiatry department at Mount Sinai
Medical Center in Miami, and I had written
more than 40 scientific articles and book
chapters in the fields of psychopharmacology,
brain chemistry, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Catherine turned my skepticism—and my
life—upside down.
Although it has been over thirty years since
that day, I still remember the very first time
that she crossed the invisible boundary of her
current life and entered the realm of other
lifetimes. She was in a deeply relaxed state,
her eyelids lightly shut but her concentration
intense.
“There are big waves knocking down
trees,” she whispered in a hoarse voice as she
described an ancient scene. “There’s no place
to run. It’s cold; the water is cold. I have to
save my baby, but I cannot…just have to hold
her tight. I drown; the water chokes me. I
can’t breathe, can’t swallow…salty water.
My baby is torn out of my arms.”
“Her body had tensed; her breathing accelerated. Suddenly, her body and her breathing
relaxed completely. “I see a cloud. My baby
is with me, along with others from my village. I see my brother.”
My skepticism needed more time to erode,
but the process had begun. Catherine’s severe
symptoms began to disappear as she remembered more scenes from this and other prior
lifetimes. I knew that imagination could not
dissolve such chronic symptoms; only actual
memories could.
Ever since Many Lives, Many Masters, my
first book, was published in 1988, I have
treated over 4,000 individual patients using
past-life regression therapy and many, many
more in large groups during my experiential
workshops. The stories in my new book
Miracles Happen will propel you on the very
same path and lead you from doubt to discovery. Just open your own mind and let this
miraculous journey begin.
The author Paolo Coelho writes: “Life is
the train, not the station.” On our soul’s journey home to a state of infinite love and wisdom, a journey filled with mystery and miracles, we rest, recuperate, and reflect at the
stations, in between lifetimes, until it is time
to board again: another train, another body.
There is only one home and eventually we
will all return there. It is a place of bliss.
∆
PHOTO SOURCE: Facebook.
Angel cloud over the Great Smokey
Mountains.
By Mary Lelle www.marylelle.com
“A man came forward. He had been losing
his hair for years after recovering from
severe illness. The trauma of the illness
affected his nervous system and hair follicles. It also awakened an old energy of
fear and brought that to the surface. His
angels and I helped him release many of
these energies. We brought healing to his
scalp, nervous system, and entire body.
They began to calm and the angels whispered to his hair, ‘Begin to grow!’”
“Another woman came forward. She had
been having trouble taking deep breaths
for some time. The tissues in her lungs
was tight and constricted preventing them
from expanding fully in any direction. I
made myself very small and stepped into
her lung tissue. Each part of her lung was
massaged and relaxed. I found energies of
an old childhood grief she had experienced and lovingly helped it release. I saw
her happy child self, a part the woman
forgot was there, joyfully skip away. The
woman was able to take her first deep
breath in years.”
Please share your
“Evidence of Angels”
stories with us!
E-mail them to: [email protected]
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Essential Oil of the Month: Lemon
When life gives you ‘Lemon Essential Oils’ make lemonade,
or a natural disinfecting cleaner.
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LEMON has antiseptic-like properties and contains compounds
that have been shown to boost
immune system function. This
essential oil has a fresh, zesty
aroma that uplifts and energizes
the body and mind. Because of its
versatility, lemon is definitely one
of the most useful essential oils to
keep with you at home, or on the
go. Here are 11 ways you can use
Lemon essential oil. (CAUTION:
Citrus oils should NOT be applied to
skin that will be exposed to direct sunlight or ultraviolet light within 72 hours.)
1. Lemonade.
For homemade lemonade, in a blender
mix 2 drops of lemon oil, 2 tablespoons
honey and 2 cups of pure water. Adjust
to suit your taste and enjoy!
2. Spot cleaner.
Use 1 to 2 drops of lemon oil to remove
gum, oil, grease spots or crayon marks
from surfaces.
3. Varicose veins.
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Rub several drops of lemon oil on varicose veins to improve circulation and
relieve pressure on the veins.
4. Air freshener.
Put 6 drops of lemon oil and 6 drops of
purification oil in a squirt bottle mixed
with distilled water to use in the bathroom, or any room, as an air freshener.
5. Calluses, corns and warts.
Rub a drop of lemon oil on a corn, callus
or wart each day until it disappears.
6. Prolong life of fresh fruit.
To clean and increase shelf life of fresh
fruit, fill a bowl with cool water and add
2 to 3 drops of lemon oil. Drop
cleaned fruit into water and stir,
being sure to coat all surfaces of
the fruit with lemon water.
7. Countertops.
Add 2 to 3 drops of lemon oil to
water and spray counter top surface to sterilize.
8. Dishcloths.
Soak your dishcloth overnight in
a bowl of water and a drop of
lemon oil to disinfect and kill
germs.
9. Public bathrooms.
Rub a drop of lemon oil on your hands
after using a public bathroom.
10. Mental clarity.
Diffuse lemon in your work or study
space to improve mental accuracy and
concentration.
11. Acne.
Put 3 drops of lemon oil on a cotton ball
and apply to clean, dry affected areas.
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